Potato Broad-Beans Fry – Potato Recipes

This Potato Broad-Beans fry is a simple stir fry. This is my favourite since childhood. We call this Aloo-Avarakkai. I dont know from where we derived this name, as Aloo is in hindi & Avarakkai is in tamil. Funny na?? But we call it that way 🙂 It goes well with rice (rasam, sambar, curd) & chapathi or even bread. I purposely prepare a little extra & use the left over sabji to make a grilled sandwich. Yumm!! Do check my entire Potato Recipes collection HERE.

Now to the recipe…

[Preparation Time-10 mins : Cooking Time- 20 mins]

Potato Broad Beans Fry Ingredients:

Potato – 3

Broad Beans – 10 to 15 (250 gms)

Oil – 3 tbsp

Asafoetida – a generous pinch

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder – a pinch

Coriander powder – 1.5 tbsp

Salt – as needed

Fried Gram powder ( Pottu kadalai mavu) – 2 tbsp

Method:

Wash and cube the potatoes & broad beans and keep it ready. Heat a pan with oil and add asafoetida. Once u get a nice aroma, add the chopped veggies together and saute for a min.

Add salt, chilli powder, coriander powder & turmeric powder and mix well. Cover the pan and cook in low flame for 5-7 mins or until the potatoes get cooked. By this time broad-beans will get cooked too.

Add fried gram powder (Make a powder by grinding 2 tbsp of fried gram in a mixer) to the veggies. Saute & cook in medium flame until potatoes are roasted evenly.

That’s it. Simple & easy Potato Broad-Beans Fry is ready.

Serve hot with rice or roti.

Tips:

I have not used any water to cook the veggies, just covered & cooked in low flame. This way it will remain crunchy.

U can add a pinch of garam masala for an extra flavour.

If u prefer the sabji to be tangy add 1/4 tsp of amchur powder.

U can substitute fried gram powder with besan, but personally I feel it tastes better with fried gram powder. Its healthy too.